48 HOURS till the end of our fundraiser at locusmag.com/igg26 and we're only halfway to our funding goals.... Please take a moment to support what we do if you have the means! Thank you so much!
Fundraiser closes Tuesday 4/14!
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Oh heyyyy she’s shining bright like a super massive blue giant! 💫 Delighted with this lovely review from the School Library Journal!! 💖🐳
#thecelestialseas #scifibook #bookreview
It's eligibility season for lists and awards, so here's my lil plug that Casthen Gain (2025) is eligible in novella categories! As science fantasy, it would be appropriate in either genre. 🫧🍲💜
Hey, everyone. I’m opening to queries on a very limited basis using the link below. I’ve narrowed my genres during this time to Adult Crime/Mystery, Adult Fantasy & Sci-fi, and YA Fantasy & Sci-fi from BIPOC, Asian/AAPI, Latinx, SWANA, and LGBTQIA+ writers only.
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my MONKEY KING story is forthcoming in @khoreo.bsky.social September 2026 issue, Revolutions! it's
🙈 inspired by John Wick's the Continental hotel—
🙉 but an exploration of 'third place's under capitalistic fascism and the sacrifices needed to protect them
🙊 DIM SUM and DEFIANCE in space 🥟🛰️🚀
Spoiler: Corporation hopes to keep exploiting writers until writers forget they're being exploited.
the diagram checks out, we are go for BOOK
My heart leapt into my throat when I saw this. This is the first real piece of reader art I’ve ever seen. I’m struggling to express how much this means to me. Thank you.
you're a sweetie pea!
Thank you so much darling
thanks, girl!
"For your consideration" poster featuring 2 pieces of Photoshop composite art. One shows a giant octopus grabbing a man, for the short story Patient was the Doctor. The other is a red mermaid curled up in the sea, for the story titled milt. Both stories are stated to be free to read/listen to.
QR code for milt, reprinted in audio/podcast format on Escape Pod
QR code for Patient was the Doctor, in PDF form, on the Analog Magazine website
I have 2 short stories awards eligible this year!
1. Patient was the Doctor (PDF 📝) analogsf.com/for-your-con... with @analogsf.bsky.social (Locus & SFWA recommended)
2. milt (podcast reprint 🔉) escapepod.org/2026/02/12/e... with @bsfa.bsky.social and @escapepod.org (mild nsfw 🔥)
✅ WEIRD ✅ QUEER ✅ HORNY ✅ HOPEFUL LET'S GO
Screenshots from Andor when the Gorman councilman told Mon Mothma, “They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.”
Woah, this is news to me!
Hey, peeps! My very first book is currently on sale for just 2 bucks! Both the eBook AND the hardcover, apparently? It's about a tea specialist-turned-assassin who embarks on an epic quest to rescue her kidnapped sibling... in SPACE.
Also HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)
A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)
A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)
A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)
Heading into 2026, I'm still looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com
Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season! There’s only one week left in the year—which means we are ONE WEEK away from opening to fiction and poetry submissions on January 1st!
Get your original fiction and poetry ready ✨
othersidespec.com/guidelines/
exact same problem down in the peninsula. I'm so tired why is this
contract is signed! my sci-fi story, milt, from the bsfa's Fission #5 anthology, will be "reprinted" by @escapepod.org in audio 🎧 in January 2026.
it is, incidentally, the horniest story I've ever published. gender essentialism comes here to die. ✌️
Okay, after several hours spent agonizing over the details… edits are done and I am happy to say: yeah, this story is good 🙂↕️ Cannot wait to share it with you soon. Hope you love prehistoric myth and ritual murder and religious trauma and cults and sad women who are pathetic levels of in love.
repost if trans people should have dr pepper
Another Nebula Awards nomination cycle is in full swing, and the addition of poetry and comics, along with the presence of LLMs in industry, required careful consideration.
Read on, and vote well!
We trust our voters & look forward to what they choose to celebrate.
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Sabrina Carpenter to donate portion of Short n’ Sweet tour profit to Transgender Law Center
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Worried about an AI apocalypse? Find out why author David Ebenbach believes we can stave one off by leaning into our own humanity
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I'll be doing an online workshop on character creation and development for Blue Stoop on December 7th! Interested? Register and pay here: www.bluestoop.org/classes/p/nk...
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
